Academy Award for best supporting actress

2023 - 3 - 13

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Jamie Lee Curtis Wins Best Supporting Actress at the Oscars 2023 (Vanity Fair)

In one of the most unpredictable acting races in recent Oscar history, the Everything Everywhere All at Once star came out on top.

Despite her four decades in the industry, Everything Everywhere All at Once marks Curtis’s first Oscar nomination and win. [OG nepo baby,](https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2023/02/jamie-lee-curtis-loves-being-a-nepo-baby-awards-insider)” highlighting her Hollywood lineage as the youngest daughter of Oscar nominees Janet Leigh and Tony Curtis [in interviews](https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2023/02/jamie-lee-curtis-little-gold-men-oscar-nominee-awards-insider) and [award speeches](https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2023/02/proud-nepo-baby-jamie-lee-curtis-wins-supporting-actress-sag-award). The industry vet made her way into the best-supporting-actress category for her comedic turn as Deirdre the IRS agent in Everything Everywhere All at Once, most likely buoyed by the outpouring of industry love for the best-picture front-runner. Curtis thanked her Everything Everywhere collaborators and emphasized the group effort that went into her victory: “We just won an Oscar!” Curtis mounted one of the more traditional yet unconventional campaigns. “I know it looks like I’m standing up here by myself, but I’m not, I am hundreds of people,” a visibly emotional Curtis said, acknowledging the vast team behind her film.

Jamie Lee Curtis Wins Best Supporting Actress Oscar (IndieWire)

The "Everything Everywhere All at Once" star nabbed her first Academy Award after a long and storied career in Hollywood.

I felt the depth of it all. The first time I started speaking as Deirdre, I knew she sounded like a combination of Fauci and Bernie Sanders. I ask a lot of questions. And I have nice skin, but I knew that I would never become a ‘cosmeceutical’ person. I have felt rejection. I have felt abandoned. I went there. “I have beautiful genetics. I am not going to advertise that ‘if you do this, you will look different and feel different.’ That’s just not going to be my path.” And I have been forgotten. “The moment with Michelle [Yeoh] in the hot dog universe on the page reads in a way as being absurd. This is the first Oscar win and nomination for Curtis, whose long and prolific career began as the quintessential final girl.

Jamie Lee Curtis wins first Oscar for best supporting actress in ... (The Guardian)

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An emotional Curtis then looked to the sky as she spoke of her late parents, and their own Oscar nominations. Curtis has received considerable award notice for the role, winning the Screen Actors Guild award for best supporting actress, and nominations from Bafta and the Golden Globes. Curtis plays tax inspector Deirdre Beaubeirdre in Everything Everywhere All at Once, as well as the character’s alternate-universe counterparts.

Jamie Lee Curtis Wins Best Supporting Actress at 2023 Oscars (Rolling Stone)

Jamie Lee Curtis took home the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress at the 2023 Academy Awards for her role in 'Everything Everywhere All at Once.'

“To all of the people who have supported the genre movies that I’ve made for all these years that thousands and hundreds of thousands of people – we just won an Oscar together.” [nepotism babies were under attack](https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-news/jamie-lee-curtis-defends-nepo-baby-instagram-tony-curtis-janet-leigh-1234652618/), made space in her speech to acknowledge her lineage. In disbelief that her name was the one being called as the winner, Curtis excitedly mouthed “shut up” before taking the stage to accept the award.

Oscars 2023: Jamie Lee Curtis wins Academy Award for best ... (CBS News)

Jamie Lee Curtis made her long-waited first Oscar nomination count.

But it was her performance in "Everything Everywhere All at Once" that ultimately landed her in the Oscars' record books. "My mother and my father were both nominated for Oscars in different categories," Curtis said, beginning to cry as she accepted the award. And I love her," she said. "I know women like Deirdre Beaubeirdre. I know her. She plays an IRS agent who has several guises through different timelines in the multiverse.

Jamie Lee Curtis Wins Best Supporting Actress at Oscars 2023 ... (TVLine)

Jamie Lee Curtis earned Best Supporting Actress honors at the 2023 Oscars for her performance in 'Everything Everywhere All at Once'

I am hundreds of people…we just won an Oscar.” I just won an Oscar.” “I am hundreds of people…